





^fe^Sk' 



^- z m^^mwm' 



^A'AaAJ;', 






£&Z& 



<tm^$wwz 






, ^;S?5^8, 



/i. '* 



i; "V 















cMi%« 



mmmm^^ 






li> I I.I.U. a.a**^ * ...iil.i. 



****** *r* A "'■ 






''*./"% 



****** A 












^* wvvw^;^ ^<' 



-m . ;:,^.:V 



. "<**§* *%*»t^M ' 






*• * - * --- riAA n 



mm§mmm^^ 



KWW 






M-PWk?* *( 






%fofy$\r- 






- v,^ 



S\f\f\^A K*.**.^ 



> 









„A A V\a£ J A, 



nms JJommi, 

/873 - U ~ 75, 



OR THE 



ESIDEMCY 

of 




Horace Greeley, 



BY A 

Democrati c Cl airvoyant . 
Price _Ten_ Cents. 

PUBLISHED AT *WILD OATS* OFFICE , 113 FAJ.V.T0N STMIT, 
NEWY0.HK. 






Enteb£t> according to Act of Congress. In the year 1*72, by 

WTNCHKLL. 8MALL & CO.. 

In tn» office of tke Librarian of Cungreea at WasMng1*)n. 



Tlllil X* I * ESS I 1 > I OIXO V" 



Horace Greeley. 



BY .V DEMOCRATIC CLA1 K\ < > VA.NT. 




THE HONORABLE HORACE GREELEY BEING SWORN IN', AS PRESIDENT OF THH 
UNITED STATES. 



The most important recent event in the 
history of the United States had taken place 
without causing the slightest disturbance. 



The illustrious Farmer of Chappaqnn had 
been sworn into tbe office of President. 
Eetiring without the slightest illegal ef- 




■» U : M;v OF STATE— CHARLES SDMNEfi. 

fort at opposition, whichhad been so widely 
predictedbyhis opponents, theGieat Soldier 
who had saved the Republic in the war of 
the Rebeffion, from disunion, had quietly 
retired from the high office which in 1869 
the people had confided to him. 

Clad in his historic garments— the old 
white hat and coat, with unblacked boots 
which, with great difficulty, his friends had 
induced him to abandon during the canvass- 
Horace Greeley had taken the oath of office I 
This evidence of republican simplicity had 
i Qdeared him to the people. 

His Cabinet had long since been organ- 
■zed. It had been constructed with great 
difficulty. Elected to office mainly by the 
now defunct Democratic party, he had been 
compelled to deal fairly with that organiza- 
tion. Greedy for place, after their long ab- 
sence from power, they had demanded every- 
thing. However, they had been induced 
at last, to content themselves with no more 
than a fair share of what they called the 
P B °hc plunder. When named, this Cabinet 
"ms received with acclamation, it was 

JHt that at last the lio„ and the lamb were 
lying down in harmony together, 
ft consisted of the following names:— 



Secretary of State, Charles Sumner- Sec 
retary of Interior, Whitelaw Reid: Secre 
ton, of m TreahtSy, W. M. Tweed; Secre 
to^o/ War General McClellanj Secretory 
tfthe Navy, Sam Bowles; Attorney-Generl 
^-Governor Hoffinan; Pottmaater-GeneraL 
Mural Halstead. 

At first considerable doubt and hesita 
u,m I,: " 1 been felt by the new president in 
thus rewarding Tweed for his support in 
the arduous struggle re^ulting.in his elec- 
t, "" ; . But the' great .nd unjustly aspersed 
Architect of the New Court-House in New 
Fork had been applied to to raise alaree 
portion of the f„„ds aecessary for the cam- 
paign, after the nomination of Horace 
Greeley and B. Gratz Brown had received 
the ratification at Baltimore. He had only 
consented to do so on the explicit under- 
standing-that he should be made Secretary 
of the Treasury. 

Luckily, nearly two years had passed. 
In two years our great nation can forget 
any and every thin- It is only when a job 
for a sculptor has to be put through, that 
defunct eminence may be recalled. In like- 
mauner, we forgive and forget past pecula- 
tion. 

The names of the Cabinet were heartily 




SECRETARY OF INTERIOR— H n :, h.aw KKIP. 



indorsed by all \\li<> had voted the straight 
cut Reform ticket. 
The, first meeting of the Cabinet was, how- 

( vi']', slightly inharmonious. 

Charles Sumner did not niuuh like his 
position. llf had previously denounced 
his companions to the Sage of Ckappaqua, 
who at length had replied in his vigorous 
Saxoa style of expletive, bj saying: — 

•• Von lie — \ lllain ! — you he." 

Massachusetts statesman, who dis- 
liked plain English, hail thrown up his po- 
sition. An irreparable breach would have 
occurred with the President, if the latter, 
in order to retain him, hail not consented 

to allow him to conduct the Foreign A Hairs 

of {he country exclusively on ins own hook. 

In consequence of this, Whitelaw Redd 
had demanded to in- sent Ambassador some- 
where. 

•• I can't do it," said his venerable chief. 

"That rascal Sumner will appoint them 
all."' 

"Then — -Mr. President .' i leave the Cabi- 
net at once." 

Bursting into a Hood ot tears, Horace 

( reeleyfell upon his neck, imploring him 
to remain. In his tender love — not for 
office, but for the President — the. unseltish 
WhitelafV consented not to withdraw. 





AT'IOKNEY-UKNKKAL HOFFMAN. 



SECRETARY OF TRESISDRT — WM. M. 't V I I D. 

But his chief trouble on the BCore.oi his 
Secretary of State was not over. Carl 
Schurz was indignant. Be had been Darned 
tor the embassy to Berlin, in spite of Mr. 
Sumner's knowledge that 1><- had Bed from 
German] in oonsequen.ee of his intimate 
connection and actual complicity with the 
revolutionary party in that country. 

To tell the truth, the President did not al- 
together regret this nomination. He was a 
trifle in awe of the Senator's sharp tongue. 
Besides, Senator Schurz had not at first 
cordially indorsed the action of the Cincin- 
nati Convention. So lie told him that he 
had put it out of his own power to do any- 
thing, and Mr. Schurz left him in disgust 
at what, with his usual insolence, he styled 
the President's "childish weakness." 

In the mean time, he had announced to 
his Cabinet that he intended Protection to 
Home Industry to he a cardinal point in 
his policy. All new emigrants from Europe 
were to be removed to the Great West, and 
Compelled to study forming. Neither would 
he allow American residents in Europe more 
than one-half of their incomes. This would 
necessarily force them to return. 

At his peremptory instructions, in spite 
of the opposition of more than one-half of 
the Cabinet, a measure for the regulation 




i£r y 

SECKETABY OK WAIi 



B. MC CI,KI,1,A\. 



of foreign travel was introduced into Con- 
gress. 
General Butler inquired if it was to apply 

to National officials? If so, it would make 
it highly undesirable for a man of means, 
and still more for one without any — .suppos- 
ing it to apply to his salary — to become 
foreign ambassador. 

It was unequivocally laughed down. 

"The idiots!" groaned tho Chappaqua 
Farmer. " Don't they see these fellows woidd 
be better doing their duty to their country, 
by growing squash or pumpkin-pie ? " 

The settlement after tho Geneva Arbitra- 
tion, had been dragging slowly along. At 
last, mistaking busman, tho British Minister 
-it Washington undertook personally to 
point out to tho President what he con- 
sidered his errors injudgment. 

"You li< — villain I s 

Although a Saxon in race, the British 
Ambassador relishes Saxon no mora than 
Charles Sumner, and demands an apology. 
But Sumner views unadulterated Saxon in a 
very different way, when addressed to any 
other than himself. Tho President must 
make no apology. Then tho Minister tele- 
graphs home, receives an answer, and leaves 
the United: States. Sumner rubs his hands. 



" The. treaty I didn't make, will lx> crashed 
now." 

But English gold was at work in the 
lobby. Mrs. Ann S. Stephens tried to pour 
oU upon the troubled water. It was of no 
use. Victoria Woodhul] used her blandish- 
ments on the Head of the Nation. That 
head softened. Then Mrs. Richardson — 
formerly McFarland— and Mrs. Sinclair, 
got at him, by means of the husband of tho 
latter, his Private Secretary. Sumner, mean- 
while, has got an inkling of this. lie is as 
resolute as his chief; and is determined to 
manage foreign affairs without any inter- 
ference. Consequently, ho orders our Am- 
bassador to England home, and places an 
embargo on all British vessels. 

William Tweed is thunderstruck. Ho 
rushes to the President, and remonstrates 
warmly with him. Sumner is doing his 
best to ruin what little commerce the 
country has left after the war of tho Ro- 
bellion. A fierce scene and bitter recrimi- 
nation take place between tho two mem- 
bers of the Cabinet. 

This is enjoyed by the Sage of Chappaqua, 
who rubs his hands with delight, when, at 
last, Charles Sumner resigns. 

Mr. Tweed does not. He and the Secre- 
tary of the Interior are now masters of the 
situation, and an ample apology is tendered 
to Great Britain. 

Next day a scathing denunciation of this 
pusillanimity is made in Congress by Gen- 
eral Butler, while Sumner is interviewed by 
a correspondent of the Xeic York HerahU 
and roundly abuses the President for truck- 
ling to bluster. 

General Sherman, who had been expect- 
ing orders for the invasion of Canada, in- 
dignantly resigns his position as Commandor- 
ia-chief. 

Within the hour, McClcllan, who has, as 
ho formerly had, a keen eye for the main 
chance, applies for it. 

" What shall I do for a Secretary of War 
in that case?" cries tho President. "Be- 



t lien, I want a new Secretary of State. I 
How would yon l i K « ■ the place, Mr. Tweed i" 

'•Not at all, Mr. President I" Bays tin- Pi 
aanoial Secretary, buttoning up bis pocket. 

The first session of Congress, since -Mr. 
Greeley's nceeasion to the Presidency, had 
now come to an end, and be burned off to 
bis farm at Chappaqua, leaving the whole 
of the public business at sixes and sevens. 

Whitelaw Raid follows bin for tin- pur- 
pose of expostulation, and limls liim chop- 
ping trees :" 

•• Now! what's the use of bothering me? 
You managed the Tribune tor me, as.). Rus- 
sell Young, and Mr. (lay, ami that repro- 
bate, Dana, did before. Why, Dana is the 
very man. .Send tor him and manage mat- 
ters between you. You and be and Tweed 

will make a capital team." 

Colonel Forney, in the Philadelphia Press, 
has commenced publishing a series of vitu- 
perative letters on the policy of the govern- 
ment. 

•• What does he want, with his scoundrelly 
newspaper. I'll make him < 'ommander-in- 
< hief." 

As an angry answer was trembling upon 
the tongue of his confidant — Whitelaw Reid, 
Mr. Schurz is announced. He has just re- 
turned from Berlin. The German Kaiser j 
had, naturally enough, refused to receive one 
he regarded as a revolutionary firebrand, I 
while Prince Bismarck had publicly snub- 
bed him. He is whitely furious, and de- ! 
maads an oftiee. 

"There's only one, my dear Mr. Schurz, I 
and 1 was just geing to give it to Forney.'' j 

" He is a friend of Grant's, Mr. President 1" 

■• But a newspaper man. Those fellows 
will take anything. I don't mean you, 
Whitelaw ! However, if you want it, Mr. 
Schurz ! you shall have it." 

" W r hat is it — Mr. President f " 

"Commander-in-chief." 

The ex-ambassador ha.s been an anny 
officer, and the Philosopher of Chappaqua 
will make him a Major-Geueral. It is the 




I1IK PRESIDENT Bl'U.YlXO: THE BRITISn AM- 
n^s\l> i: (Pagi 

\ el \ tiling. An otliee for lite. He'll take 

it. It will give him, with good manage 
ment. a splendid opportunity for paying off 
old grudges. 

Tearing his hair when he hears this, 
Whitelaw Reid returns to Washington. 

No sooner is Dana installed as the Seen- 
tary of State, than he assumes the game 
absolute control of Foreign Affairs which 
Sunnier had. Consequently, he recalls every 
ambassador Sunnier had appointed, save 
one. 

"Grant was an obstinate brute!" ex- 
claimed the irate Massachusetts statesman : 
''but old Greeley is nothing but an idiot. 
Why did 1 resign my place in the Senate 
for one in the Cabinetf And win did- I 
resign that, to let in Dana?" 

At the succeeding session, in his lirst 
annual message, the President congratu- 
lated himself and the country upon having 
preserved peace with Great Britain — eulo- 
ized the management of the Treasury — feli- 
citated the manufacturing interests upon 
his having precluded skilled mechanics 
from Europe from settling in the seaboard 
and manufacturing towns — gave an eloquent 
description of the best way of growing cu 
cumbers, and recommended the appoint- 
ment of a Minister for Agriculture. 

To his horror, it is not only ridiculed by 
the press generally, but by the Hew Yo>-k 
/■hut in particular. 




THE PRESIDENT [MPLORING HIS SNUBBED AMBASSADOR TO BECOME COMMANDEli-DI-CHIEF, 



(Page 7.) 



"Look hei • — Ki\'I>arial Youmuststop 
it." 

•• Mr. President! on enterihgyour canvass, 
you dissolved your connection with the 
Tribune. I followed your example. Mr. 
Cummins is now (he editor of the Sim." 

"Cummins! Yes! I remember him — 
the black-hearted villain who abused poor 
Young so shamefully. Why don't you 
make him an Ambassador?" 

"I offered to do so, Mr. Presidenl ! *' 



'•Well!" whined out the Chief of Chap, 
paqua. 

"He declined acceptbig the pdsition." 

"Very well, then ! Mr. Hoffman, make 
out a warrant for the villain, and uive him 
rime to reflect in Fort Lafayette.*' 

" Pardon, me Mr. President ! " gravely re 
plied the Attorney-General, " but dori't you 
see — " 

"No! 1 don't. You're all of you conspir-. 
ing to drive me into a lunatic asylum 



9 



all of yon knaves ami idiots, and 

l>uj;lit to be shut up in Sing Siiifr." 

"Mr. President ! " 

Me astonished choral exclamation rang 
out from i lie lips of iu';irh the whole < labietu. 

••No! No! I didn't mean yon, White 
law, Qor you, Mr. Boffman, uor-anj of you. 
But Bomebodj ought to be shut up there." 

Aftei this scene, the Cabinet determined 
the Philosopher Bhould write do more mes- 
sages. 

"Yon see, Mr. Boffman!" said the Sec- 
retary of Stale. •• he is — " 

Pausing suddenly, In- shrugged bis 
shoulders, in which he was imitated by the 
whole of the Cabinet, except Secretary 
Tweed, who was serenely meditating in 
what way lie might squeeze the largest 
amount of personal perquisite out of ah ap- 
propriation of twentv millions of dollars he 

had engineered through Congress, for the 
purpose of laying out a model farm for the 
Nation, adjoining the National Paris in the 

Yo-Semite Valley. This had been managed 
al the express wish of t he Farmer of < 'hap- 
paqua, who, it may lie needless to say, 
would never have entertained the slightest 
idea of Buch a magnificent agricultural en- 
terprise, had it not heen l'orthe active brain 
of his subordinate. 

A few days alter, it became known, that 
the \eteran followers of ex-President (Irant 
through the 'Wilderness, had made a lar^e 
Subscription to erect an equestrian statue, 
in the grounds of the Capitol, to the great 
General of the Republic. 

When the Philosopher heard this, he 
grew actually frantic, and ordered the ( 'om. 
niander in-chief to his presence. 

" Nobody ever subscribed for a statue to 
me," be ejaculated, "even enough for a 
model in plaster, when Dana proposed it. 
What right have the villains to do this? 
They shan't — at any i ate, while I'm load of 
the Nation." 

"I can't help it — .Mr. Frcsideirt ! " said 
General SchnrZ. 



" \\ h> cant you?" 

One of his well-known pleasant sneers 

curled the lips of the ( diiiinandei in chief 

"The soldiers have not forgotten their 
late g ene r a l— Mt. President! Thej would 

not sulimil to an feet, with regard to him, 

which strikes even myself, a- onrepublican 
ami arbitral \ ." 

"<i 1 heavens! what's the use o| being 

fust officer of a great people like this, if one 
isn't able to do anything he wants to? 

Sumner woiildu'l let DBS -Whitelaw IvVid is 
always Objecting — Dana's worse than Sum- 
ner — and now \ou set up youi bach ami 
grin al me. Govern the whole damned 

conntrj yourselves, you ungrateful villains!" 
The next morning he was in Chapp&qua, 




Mi! PRESIDENT [N HIS FIRST DISGUISE ASA 
GENTLEMAN. 



10 



without >t* being known that be bad even 
left Washington. 
Tins may appear incredible, 
It is, however, the fact. 
Be had disguised himself in an entirely 
new suit of black broadcloth and a tall 
hat— presented to him by the female disci- 
ples of Free Love in New York — and was 
completely unrecognizable. 

The following morning there was conster. 
tuition in the Cabinet 

The President was absent from the White 
House. 

He could lie found nowhere. Upon in- 
quiry at the offices of the various railroads, 
it was positively declared he had not left 
Washington. 
What was to be done? 
They searched high and low for him— 
?x>gan to have fears of suicide — dredged 
the Potomac, aud, before night, the news 
had parsed by telegraph, from one end of 
the Union to the other, that it was sus- 
pected the President of the United States 
had taken his own life. Mrs. President 
Greeley and his daughters, however, knew 
him too well, to entertain any fears of this — 
although his habits in his family circle had, 
latterly, greatly increased in singularity, 
and succeeded, at a late hour, in calming 
the fears of Secretary Iteid, and, in no 
small degree, relieving the mind of Vice- 
President Brown of his sympathetic hopes, 
when these eminent men had called to con- 
dole with them on the absence of their chief. 
When the Secretary had retired to rest, 
in consequence of what Mrs. Greeley had 
said, he succeeded m obtaining a balmy 
slumber, with dreams that he had once 
more returned to his old acquaintances and 
fried friends — the paste-pot and thescis 
sors — in his former editorial sanctum. At 
half past eight ho was however awakened, 
with scant ceremony, by Stuart, the head 
if the Kitchen Cabinet. His face was even 
more rosily white than Beihhad ever be 
fori' seen it. 



• Here's a telegram." 

• Where from .'"' 
■ ( lhappaqua ! " 

The Secretary started up in his bed at 
once. Before opening the dispatch, he had 
divined the truth. It read thus: — 

" You are all idiot« or scoundrel* .' 

11. G? 

Without the initials, the grandly Roman 
and obligatory simplicity, with which the 
telegram was worded, vouched for its au- 
thenticity. With a groan of disgust at 
his own folly, Whitelaw Reid smote his 
forehead with his clenched hand. It 
sounded empty, but neither himself nor 
Stuart noticed this. Here was a centre- 
temps. And so indeed it proved, for, by 
noon of that day, not a single place of any 
importance in the United States but had a 
bulletin in the doorway of its oue or two 
newspaper offices, announcing the fact. 
Even the Administration papers headed 
the announcement, " A Stupendous 
Hoax ! " But those which had supported 
Grant in the late election, and even some 
few of those which had opposed Greeley's 
predecessor, named it — 
''Thk Infamous Fkaud of the .Presi- 
dent i " 
As may be supposed, the Cabinet were 
not over anxious to meet the Sage of Chap- 
paqua after this appeared, and Whitelaw 
Keid was even thinking of absenting him- 
self from Washington, when the members 
received an imperative summous to present 
themselves at the White House. They all 
obeyed, trembling, with the exception of 
Dana and Tweed. The iron hardihood of 
the fust, and the brazen aplomb of the lat- 
ter were imperturbable. 

"A pretty set ot lying tools you are," ex- 
claimed the Philosopher when he saw them, 
'• to bring me into this scrape 1 " 

"Mr. President," said Dana reprovingly, 
• tf you dress yourself in this unwonted 
manner, you could only expect — " 



11 







DBEDQIVa TIIK POTOMAC 1*0 U THE BODY OF Tin: PRESIDENT. (Page 10.) 



" In what maimer ? " Bavagely demanded 
the Bage, who, by tliis time, had totally for- 
gotten tin' unwanted variation In his attire. 

The Secretary of State pointed to a tall 
mirror. 

His chief looked in it, and started back, 
in uncontrollably disgusted astonishment. 
He could not recognize his own reflection, al- 
though, from never — since quitting Wash- 
ington — having applied the brush to his 
new raiment, he resembled his former self 
much more nearly than he had done, two 
days earlier. After a few minutes he 
whined out, in an appealing tone : — 

" Hut you needn't have told the cursed 
newspapers I'd hung or drowned myself, 
Whitelaw | They call it my infamous 
kbaud — mine! You've seen what Marble 
says. He'll never let up on me." 

The Attorney-General could not avoid a 
griin smile. 

" Harsh words break no bones," he said, 
"as I and the Secretary of the Treasury 
learned, some three years since." 

" I didn't want to learn it, though, in my 
own person," exclaimed the President. " I 
must write to Marble." 

" You'd better not, Mr. President," cried 
the Secretary of the Navy, energetically. 

" By no means," ejaculated MeClellan. 

" It's no use stirring up a stinking dish," 

observed Tweed, "when you can't turn a 

dollar, by doing 60." 

( Dana alone applauded the determination 

i .: the Philosopher. He, as well as President 



(ire<le\, luul an itching pen, ami relished 
a light in type even more than his ma-sb-r 
did. The letter was accordingly written, 
and intrusted to the Secretary of the lute 
rior, to dispatch by a Hi>ccial courier. Un- 
fortunately, its contents are lost to the 
world, as ho took it with him to his oflice, 
and, after a good hour spent in attempting, 
in vain, fully to decipher its contents, 
burned it. 

What the result of such an act of insub- 
ordination might have been, it would have 
been difficult to say; but events of so much 
graver importance followed, that this letter- 
entirely passed from memory. 

Upon the next afternoon, the ltebel Ex- 
President, whom the Sage had so mag- 
nanimously bailed, moved by an intense 
admiration for one whom he esteemed more 
pig-headedly obstinate than he himself had 
ever been, arrived in the Capital for the 
purpose of personally expressing his grate- 
ful admiration. The President felt a recip- 
rocal sympathy for the man, the signature 
of whose bail-bond earned so many par- 
doned rebel votes for his own election. He 
consequently directed the chief of his Kitch 
en Cabinet to arrange a meeting with him 
Stuart was shocked, but dared say noth- 
ing. He accordingly hurried off to Secre- 
tary Keid, and laid the matter before him. 
Within the hour Whitelaw had requested 
the remainder of the Cabinet to meet him, 
on a matter of private emergency, in his 
own house. 



12 




THE PRESIDENT, IN HIS SHIRT-TAIL, IN- 
DITES a TELEGRAM TO His SECRETARY iik 
THE INTERIOR; 

What was liis astonishment, on detailing 
the information he had received, to be made 

cognizant of a positive division of opinion 
in the members! 

Secretaries Tweed and McClellan, with 
the Attorney -General, approve of it as a 
pobtic measure towards the South, while 
the Secretary of State is indifferent. 

No positive protest from the Cabinet, as 
a whole, can be procured against the de- 
termination of the Republican President. 

When the meeting has broken up, the 
Secretary of the Interior seizes his hat, and, 
without waiting to summon his carriage, 
rushes to the nearest hack-stand, hails one, 
and is driven to the White House. A 
stormy scene takes place between him and 
liis chief. 

" Who's master here, you villain— vou 
or I •" 

" If you insist upon being what you call 
yourself — master — in this instance, Mr. 
President ! you have very little further use 
for me." 

On returning to his house, Secretary Reid 
indites tli,' Farmer of Chappaqua a formal 
tetter of resignation— coldly virtuous and 
loftily indignant. 

1 '.(tore receiving it, however, the Presideut 
imagines that he has solved the difficulty 
between himself and the Secretary. lie 
invites Jeff". Davis to pay him a visit at 



Chappaqua, and starts by the next train, 
.Mr. Davis follows him. 

In these days, every action of a public 
man is almost immediately known. 

A double-leaded editorial appears tiie 
next day in the New York HeraUl. It 
openly denounces the President as in trea- 
cherous ((illusion with Jeffi Davis. "The 
present is of a piece with his past history. 
Did he not advise .mr government, at the 
commencement of the Rebellion, to let the 
South got Did he not go hail for the trai- 
torous ex-President .' Whal does this new 
action mean \ Is he actually contemn,., 
tin- the working out of his old programme 
— the eternal separation of the North and 
South .'" 

This article is read, ii. General Butler, 
before a full house in Congress, and re- 
ceived with tremendous applause by the 
enemies of the Administration. 

Senator Conkling animadverts upon it in 
the Senate, but Vice-President Brown is, 
luckily,!!) indisposed at the time, and is con- 
sequently not present. Even the supporters 
of the President have nothing to say. 

It is generally known that the man, who 
had been mainly instrumental in procuring 
his election, has resigned. 

Angry denunciations are, however, lev- 
eled by the independent and clear Repub- 
lican Press against the leading members of 
the Cabinet. 

The only honest member of it has bolted 
out of Washingt m. 

Yes! Whitelaw Reid has started for 
New York, and arrives there to find the 
city in open revolution. Regretting his 
old chief's obstinate incapacity to see any 
thing beyond the point of his nose, in a 
moment of chivalrous feeling, he defends 
him in the teeth of the armed mob which 
has collected in the open space in front of 
the City Hall. 
"We thought you'd resigned — " 
" YourV as bad as he is — " 
" Shoot the rascal—" *> 



i I 



" No! i it and feather him." 

No sou ler w i ■ tins proposal beard than 
the mob surges up the .steps of the Hall. 

Whltelaw Reid runs towards the room of 
tin' Mayor, 'mi is caught b\ the ringlead 
ere when barely balf-iyay there. He is, at 
once, half-stripped. Where the materials 
for their savage work came from, who Bhall 
saj .' 'mi in a linv minutes he is tarred and 
feathered by their eagerly vindictive 
hands, after which he is hunted mil of Mir 
United States, across tin' river, into New 
Jeraej . 

Then the mob determine to march upon 
Chappaqna, with the purpose of banging 
President Greeley ami JeU. Davis. 

Luckily tor tin- two. the newa of this lias 
been telegraphed to Washington. The 
Secretaries of state and War manage to 
arrive there before them. They inform the 
President of the danger which menaces 

himself and his friend. 

■ Great Heaven!" ejaculated bhe former, 
••what have I donej Because they made 
me their chief magistrate, won't they let me 
have an interesting conversation with a 

man who is destined to live in history .' " 

■After he is hung — Mr. President, at 

your side," dryly Suggests Dana. 

-A very unpleasant mode of existence 

in history." quietly remarks General Mc- 
Clellan. 

In a few hours tin' insurrectionary moli 
will have reached Chappaqna. The Presi- 
dent and rebel Kx-I'resident must fly to 
Washington. How are they to get there I 
The whole country will, perchance, have 
risen. Quailing with the memory of his 
past, Davis suggests disguise. Old Abe 
and himself nave both afforded illus- 
trious examples of its presumed value, in 
their own cases, in the last twelve years. 

After some difficulty, the Sage of Ghap- 
paqna consenl -. lie is djisgnised as an old 
farm-woman. There was some difficulty in 
providing, for his tall figure, sufficiently 
long petticoats. Jeff. Davis is to attire 




W'lllTKI.AW REID IV IMS SIIIKI-i Ml,, RE- 
CEIVES THE TELEORAU FROM ill PRESI- 
DENT. (Page in.) 

ic-iiselt in a I ishi win: li will pass h !ii 

along the road as the sister of the l'resi 
dent. When once in Washington, he will 
have to pass on immediately to his resi 
deuce in Memphis. The Foreign Secretary 
is to go with them, but suggests that Mc 
Glellan shall remain to argue with tho infn 
riate eiowd. 

"No, 1 thank yon," says the cautiously 
astute Meridian. « You see, I have no 
troops here with me; besides, the matter 
does not exactly belong to my department. 
General Schurz is not at hand, and I think 
a masterly and speedy retreat should at 
once take place." 

I'pon the cars they heard that the inline 
diate insurrection was beginning to agitate 
Baltimore, and, on drawing near that city. 
the chief of our great country, who was 
sitting with a huge woolen comforter round 
his throat, and his white hair tucked back 
into a poke-bonnet, was tapped on the 
shoulder. Glancing furtively up, he recog- 
nized the waiter who had helped to concea 
him behind the bar at Windust's eating 
house, during the former New- York riots. 

••Never you mind, my ould boy," the 
man whispered, "if I do know ye. 1 won't 
split on ye." 

••All virtue is not then lost." The pet 
tiroab-d President dries his eyes, as he. li.st- 



14 



/ 




FFXX>NT> SECRETARY OF STATE — DANA. 

mmi, from the starting tears, with the end 
of his shawl, .and adds. "If I get to Wash- 
ington in safety, my good fellow, yon shall 
have a place." 

"No ye don't; none of that, now. A 
clerkship doesn't pay." 

'When he arrives at the White Rouse he 
would not have obtained admittance in his 
disguise, but for Sinclair, his private secre- 
tary, who happened to be in the doorway, 
and heard the now pathetic treble of his 
broken voice. 

" This way, Mr. President." 

No sooner has the sage entered his pri- 
vate room 1 , and before he has removed a 
ahi< d of his disguise, than Sinclair burst 
forth, with an utter disregard of official de- 
eoi-uua — " my poor old friend! only to think 
of it!" 

" Of what f " testily demands the philos- 
opher. 

" A debate is taking place in Congress 
for the purpose of impeaching you of High 
Treason." 

" Impeach me ! Guilty of High Treason ! 
The infernal villains!" shrieked out the 
President. " Send for Whitelaw Keid." 

As Sinclair was unaware that the letter 
of resignation of the confidential Secretary 
bad not as vet reached his master, while he 



knew that tin* former had left the Cabinet, 
and was then, in all probability, in New 
York — he hesitated. Was the grand brain 
of his venerable chief actually unhinged t 
While revolving this mournful iK>ssibility, 
the door opened. Yes! It is the Ex -Secre- 
tary. 

" Why — what has happened to you," 
whines out the Sage, of Chappaqua, "my 
deai- Whitelaw !» 

"I might ask you, Mr. President, a simi- 
lar question." 

They gaze in consternation at each oth- 
er. Reid'a face is still streaked with the 
tar, which he has been unable entirely to 
remove, while his hair is matted with tht« 
remains of it and a few feathers. The 
Head of the Nation is clad in the dilapi 
dated garments of an old woman. He 
falls upon the neck of his former subordi- 
nate, sobbing wildly. 

After this momentary burst of emotion, 
the President recovers himself, disrobes, 
and resumes his usual appearance and 
equanimity. The ex-Secretary consents to 
withdraw his resignation, and a Cabinet 
meeting is called for the same night, at a 
late hour. It was then past ten o'clock. 
The meeting was grave and sombre. How 
was the immediate trouble in New York to 
be suppressed. The Commander-in-Chief 
proposes collecting the regular troops rap- 
idly, and marching, within twenty-four 
hours, upon the city. McClellan decidedly 
objects. 

" A large army is required for such an 
expidition — engineers, stores, money — " 

"Yes! "says Tweed, energetically, "money 
is the. thing." 

"Have you any, Mr. Tweed?" asks the 
white-haired Sage of the Secretary. 

" I am sony to say — No ! Mr. President, 
but it can be raised." 

Whitelaw Keid stares at him in astonish- 
ment. 

" When you entered on your office, sir .' 



[5 



he said, "that miserable Yankee, Boutwell, 

had millions of gold in the Treasury." 

"The unavoidable expenses of theGoveru 
ment," answered the unruffled Tweed, "have 
left onlj a balance <>f ;i few thousands." 

'•Ami tin" taxes and oustoms receipts, 
air !" exclaimed Dana energetically. 

"Troubles with Europe and ;ii home — 
farm in the Xb-Semite Vallej — secrel 861 
vice," began tlic unabashed financial minis- 
ter, "and a thousand other necessary ex- 
penses have — " 

"This maj come np subsequently, Mr. 
President!" said the Attorney-General, 
•• we must deal with the matter in hand.'' 

Their chief had been plunged in sorrow- 
fid reflection. Now, when addressed Uj 
63 Governor Hoffman, he looked up, and 
asked with a troubled voice whether Mr. 
Tweed was willing to proceed to New York, 
for the purpose of raising the monej nec- 
essary to pacify it. 

"I am, Mr. President ! " 

As General Schurzwas about angrily to 
protest, the chief of the Kitchen Cabinet 
ran in, without asking for permission to 
cuter. It was now four o'clock in the morn- 
ing. He had been watching the debate in 
Congress. Butler's motion for impeach- 
ment had been defeated. The ministers 
were about applausively to utter their ap- 
probation, when the Secretary of the Navy 
a-sked : — 

M By how large a vote, Mr. Stuart f " 

" Seven, majority !" 

" Why, my friends in the IIoum-, this year, 
numbered three to one," cried the 1 'resident. 
" How was that ? " 

"Mr. President! lam sorry to tell you," 
mumbled the Kitchen-factotum, " numbers 
of them were absent, and a large part of 
them voted against you." 

The face of the Philosopher become even 
whiter than his hair as he heard this. He 
muttered something to himself, almost in- 
audibly, of which the only words heard, were 
— "and I was, two years since, so i>opular." 



However, the Immediate danger i" the 1 
Administration was over. Tin- next daj 
Secretary Tweed was in New Ifork. On the 
following 'i;i\ Genera] Schurz whipped the 

insurgents who had burned the farm house 

of the President at Chappaqua, with a small 
body of Regulars; ami in two days more, 
the country was again quiet, and every 
symptom of discontent had been suppressed 

lis the agency of the sword, ami the still 

grander panacea for all l tan trouble, the 

Almightv Dollar. 

In consequence of this, the Secretary ol 
the Treasury became the predominant power 
in the Cabinet, and his chief reposed an 
almost unlimited confidence in him. 11ms. 
the Government, instead of being any longer 
a Composite one, became, in reality, Demo- 
cratic, andWhitelawBeid felt himself com- 
pelled to retire from the Secretaryship of the 

Interior. Perhaps he might have accepted 
a foreign Embassy, but Dana turned a 
deaf ear to all his hints to such effect. This 
necessitated his return to his editorial func- 
tions, in an inferior position, and with a 
large amount of bitterness stowed away for 
subsequent use. 

A flew Minister of the Interior was a ne- 
cessity, and Seere to ry Tweed suggested Bel- 
mont. 

He was, however, engaged in business, 
and the memory of his predecessor's diffi- 
culty with regard to A. T. Stewart, pre- 
vented the. President, in a moment when he 
was not suffering from the terrible fits of mis 
anthropical abstraction which were almost 
becoming chronic, from offering him the po- 
sition. 

'• I'll send to Russia Ibr ex-Senator Fen- 
ton," he at last said, after a lengthy discus- 
sion had resulted in nothing. This crafty 
politician had been sent there as ambassBr 
dor by Sumner, who was afraid of him — a 
point, of wisdom in which his succes.sor had 
so thoroughly concurred, that, in making a 
cle^n sweep of Sumner's appointments. Fen- 



16 




AFFECTING INTERVIEW OF THE PRESIDENT, IN HIS SECOND DISQURE AS AN OLD 
"VVUMAN, WITH HIS TABBED AND FEATHERED SECRETARY. Page 



L7 




FLIGHT i F G. RANCIS TRAIN FBOM THE WRATHKl'!. PRESIDENT AND HIS BNKAGED 
CA1 INET. Page ! 0. 



ton was the only ambassador he did mot re- 
calL '• Won't he be the very maul" 

Tweed shook his head, in which action he 
was coincided with by every member of the 
< 'abinet, whatever political brush they might 
be .striped with. 

•• Be is fur better where he is," laconically 
observed Secretary Bowles. 

"Then settle it among yourselves," snap- 
pishly retorted the President. "I'll be off 
to — " he was about to add" Chappaqua," but 
the word stuck iii his throat. Henceforth, 
memory tabooed the delicious retreat of his 
mature manhood to his gradually hastening 
age. " I'll go, Mr. Tweed ! to the Yo-Semite 
Valley, and inspect your new model farm." 

For a moment Tweed's well-bronzed face 
became well-nigh ghastly. Quickly recov- 
ering himself, however, he said, with one of 
his chuckling laughs : — 

" It will be in a better condition, next year, 
for inspection, Mr. President!" 

" Or the year after," cynically suggested 
1 >ana. " Or, when the national debt is paid 
off," he added with malignant emphasis. 

"George Francis Train will do as well as 
anybody else," suddenly ejaculated the Pres- 
ident. " I'll have him." 

-For what?" exclaimed the Postmaster- 
GeneraL 

"Secretory of State 1" was the strident 
response. " It shall be Train or Feuton. 
On one of the two I am determined. 

The Sage's foot was down. He was im- 
movably obstinate. If he had named any- 
one else than Fenton, any one else would 
have been accepted by the. Cabinet, in pref- 
erence, to Train. Against this double choice 
its members struggled for at least ten days, 
but in the end gave way. They had pro- 
longed their resistance until the session of 
Congress had terminated. Otherwise, Gen- 
eral Butler or might have renewed this 
motion of impeachment against the Pre- 
midpnt, with far better chances of success. 



George Francis was .summoned accord- 
ingly to Washington, and lit there like a 
spread eagle. 

On his way there, he had been interviewed 
by the editor of the New York Erprexx — his 
old friend and admirer. 

"At last," he said, in this interview, "1 
shall have the chance of causing the recu- 
peration of this glorious laud from the store 
in which she has been plunged by long years 
of mismanagement. Down with the Bed 
Cross of Great Britain ! The wide folds of 
the Stars and Stripes shall immerse the 
earth, from Pole to Pole, in their luminous 
radiance. The Eagle of Freedom, from the 
summit of the Catskill, shall pom- forth her 
cock-a-doodle-doo Pajan of Triumph. The 
Irishman shall embrace the Chinese, and 
the Indian caress the Nigger, in the light of 
Universal Freedom about to blaze from the 
bosom of the expansive Prairies." 

It was with the most intense delight 
James Brookes gave this sublime burst to 
the people of the United States. But, to 
their shame, it seems scarcely to have im- 
pressed them as it had done him. 

Indeed, a leader in the New York Times 
announced the gratification which must be 
experienced by two madmen in embracing 
each other. "The one of these," it said 
" is George Francis Train. "Who the other 
may be, we leave to the common sense of onr 
readers to determine." 

To tell the truth, at this time, doubts 
respecting the sanity of the Sage of Chap- 
paqua began unreasonably to obtain cur- 
rency. Politicians of every class among 
the disappointed supporters of ex-President 
Grant, from Senator Conklin to Wendell 
Phillips, indulged in them freely, although 
unjustly. Whatever may have been the re- 
sult subsequently, at this time there can- 
not be the slightest doubt that the Presi- 
dent was as completely sane as half the 
criminals who escape the gallows, on this 
plea, undoubtedly are. 



18 




Till: 1 KKSIDKN I s KI.KillT IN HIS SKCONI) 
MMDIOE BAXIK TO WASHINGTON. 

tPage 18.) 

The first meeting between President (iree- 
ley and his new Secretary was affecting in 
Mm extreme. 

" I am an old man, Mr. Train," said the 
Philosopher whimperingly, " and have been 
scandalously deceived by the black-hearted 
scoundrel who preceded you. He wanted 
his own way iu everything, and had not the 
(■lightest respect f'<>r my white hairs — the 
infernal idiot! So, I'll just hint to yon to 
talk no more balderdash to any one, as you 
did to that very worthy but soft-headed Jim 
Hrookes. I've some little common sense, 
and don't value Buncombe, one continental 
copper. Now, be off with you, and get to 
work.* 1 

When, with the feathers of his mental 
tail considerably drooping under this re- 
freshing reception, Secretary Train had re- 
tired from his first meeting with his chief, 
the latter muttered to himself — 

" I must li3ve been going crazy when I 
sent after this addle-pated ass. But now 
it's done, it can't be helped. Thank hea- 
ven I that reprobate Dana and the worthy 
Secretary of the. Treasury will cut his comb 
for the damned idiot" Then bowing his 
blanched head in his hands, he ejaculated 



in a tearful treble, "There ure only two 

years of my term of office gone yet, and I 

don't know whether I'm a Republican or a 
Democrat Pm certain [oncewasaBepub 

[lean. Oh, dear I — why didn't I remain an 

editor, with a proprietary in Bhares to look 
after me J Hut, in any case," he addect rla 
mg, and striking his clenched hand upon 

the table by which he had been sitting, " I 
will have my own way." 

For a week or t WO the President is left in 

peace — that is t<> say, comparative peace. 

Not so, the ( 'abinet 

Secretary Train is unable to manage his 
own share in its duties well, and conse- 
quently thrusts his finger into every other 
official pie. As long as possible, the other 
members endured this, until at length the 
smoldering wrath broke out. 

" What is the matter, gentlemen 1 " de- 
manded the President. 

Secretary Tweed motioned the Secretary 
of State or the Attorney-General to speak. 

However, before, either of them could 
utter a word, the irrepressible George Fran- 
cis had leaped to his feet. With his coa<> 
tail tucked under one arm and the gesture 
of an indignant harlequin, he jerked out 
the following denunciatory commencement 
of an explanation — 

" The matter is this, Mr. President. Sec- 
retary Dana is an overbearing blockhead, 
William M. Tweed is a swindling humbug, 
General MtOlellan an ass, ex-Governor 
Hoffman a stilted jackanapes, Postmaster 
Halstead only fit for a clerkship in his own 
department, and Sam Bowles is nothing 
but a scribbling idiot. You are ! — pardon 
me for saying so — Mr. President ! the big- 
gest " 

Until he reached this point, astonishment 
at the insolently unofficial truth or false- 
hood — as the case might be — of the new 
Secretary of the Interior, had held them 
mute. 

Now, such a perfect Babel of abuse is 
poured upon him from every side, that he is 



20 



unable to force another word in, edgeways. 

The 'Cabinet i ting of thai day became a 

veritable Pandemonium. The only figure 
that seems to dominate it all is surmounted 
bya tresh looking face framed in white hair. 
Its eyes are flashing as much as gray eyes 

ran, and from its lips a tew iuterjectional 

sentences occasionally thrust themselves 

upon the hearing. These are uttered in a 
furious and angrily excited treble, and are 
shapen in something like this fashion : — 
••You lie, you black-hearted villain— gray 

hairs — where am I '. — you OUghl to be in 
Sing Sing, you idiot — lunatic asylum — in- 
fernal reprobates — a scoundrelly madman — 
Bird of Freedom — you arc all rascally asses 
— you lie, you lie — cock-a-doodle-doo 1 " 

Then George Francis Train, Secretary of 
the Interior for less than two weeks, is ap- 
palled bya more energetic Saxon eloquence 
than lie could ever hope to rival. 

He vanishes from the room, leaving the 
tail of his coat in the hands of the vener- I 
able Philosopher, and is followed in his 
rapid retreat by the remainder of the justly 
incensed members of the Cabinet. 

The w hite-haired Sage of Chappaqua is left 
alone in the chamber. 

Still pouring out a volley of frenetic Saxon 
expletives — still clenching with an aged but 
rigorous grasp the fragment of the coat- 
tail which he had rent from the garment of 
his refractory subordinate, he is in a state of 
positive frenzy for many hours. 

It was, of course, impossible to conceal 
this from the press. 

The opposition journals imagined what 
thej did not positively know, and grossly ex- 
aggerated its incidents. One headed thenar- 
ative of it, as — " The Attempt to Murder 
his Secretary op the Interior by the 
President." This was, it is needless to 
explain, an infamous libel upon so tender- 
hearted a six-footer as the Farmer of Chap- 
paqua. Had he not, when in the prime of 
life.as the apostle of non-resistance, meekly 



allowed a cane to be broken upon his own 
broad back, in the streets of Washington t 
Tersely emphatic as his Saxon eloquence 
might be, his greyly calm eyes symbolized 
tin' benevolent tranquility of his nature, to 
which the Administration press— with many 
i of the outspoken opposition journals — did 
ample justice. Harper's Illustrated Paper 
did even more. It typified him as an old 
woman. 

But, without a solitary exception, every 
journal published in the United States con- 
gratulated the people upon being rid of 
George Francis Train. 

Unfortunately, theresultof these Cabinet 
bickerings and squabbles, which had, for a 
lengthy period, in some degree manifested 
itself in the President, now became start- 
lingly apparent. His mental faculties were 
terribly unnerved. Indeed, their prostra- 
tion, but for his vital force of character, 
must have stretched him upon a bed of 
sickness. 

So evident, indeed, did this become, that 
his political enemies actually began to talk 
of his lunacy. 

It was at this period that the well-known 
snrgeon, Dr. Stone, was summoned by Mrs 
Greeley to prescribe for him. . 

This was of no use. He brooded over what 
had passed— became, still more gloomy and 
morose, and finally, upon being urged by the 
members of his Cabinet to dismiss the Sec- 
retary of the Interior (George Francis Train 
had disappeared from Washington, without 
considering it necessary to send in his res 
ignation) and appoint another, shrilly ejac- 
ulated — 

" Send for Old Gid. I'll have him." 
He then absolutely declined .to utter an- 
other word. 

Secretaries Dana and Tweed, very med- 
dlingly as it must appear, considered it 
necessary to wait upon the lady of the 
President, and advise her to call in Dr. 
Carnochan. On consultation with his at- 



.- 




TABBING ami ki'.atiikkim; wim ki.au i:i:ii>. (P&ge 18'. 



tendaut physician, she decided upon tele- 
graphing to New York tor this eminent 
m dical iii:m. When he arrived, after inter- 
vikjwing his illustrious patient, Dr. Stone 
lanied turn into an adjoining room, 
andgave.him a succinct professional detail 
Of the manner in which he had treated him. 
■rm! ignite right. But he is tfo better f" 
••<);i tli«' contrary, much worse." 

At'tera few moments' reflection, (Jarnochan 
blurted out a tew words in the ear of his 
professional brother. 

"I don't dare order it." 

-win r» 

" He wouldn't take it if I did. He is So 
frightfully opposed to all stimulants." 



••Then let him take it i:i (he shape of 
medicine.? 

The Washington medical man was right. 
The Philosopher's principles were too ear- 
nestly severe, with regard to the use of 
alcohol, for him hare-facedly to order his 
use of it. Dr. Oarnochan accordingly drew 
up the following prescription — 
" R. Spts. Vint GaUici. 

Vini Rvibruth aa. Oss. 
Acid Citric, 
Saech. Alb., 
Sue. Limoriis, aa, q, 1." 
'• Fiat Mist. — A winegktssful to be taken 
four times a day, half tin hour before meals." 
So profoundly ignorant was President 



22 



Greeley of the flavor of every stimulating 
liquid, that he followed the prescription 
without the slightest repugnance. Indeed, 

he observed to his Secretary that the, flavor 
was rather pleasant than otherwise. Ho even 
requested him to taste it. Mr. Sinclair, 
however, shook his head. He had an 
aversion to drugs. Anything else required 
by his chief ho would have done. 

Had he tasted it, he might — but, what is 
the use of speculation in matters of fact ? 

The effect of the prescription was, for a 
u time, marvelous. The Sago almost at 
once regained his former strength of mind 
and temper. Two days subsequently he 
attended a meeting of the Cabinet. So 
evidently and fastly was he recuperating, 
that one of his ministers was already com- 
plimenting him upon his restoration to 
health, when he put a sharp question to 
them. This distinctly enough proved his 
memory as acute and his brain as clear as 
either of them had ever been. 

" How is it," he demanded, " that Oid 
Welles isn't here ? " 

Secretary Tweed did not appear to be 
aware of the imperative treble of this ques- 
tion — ex-Governor Hoffman's long chin was 
elevated, as ho seemed to be contemplating 
the ceiling — Sam Bowles's philosophic mind 
was exhausting itself in regarding the soles 
of his boots — the Military Secretary appear- 
ed to be engrossed in active attention to his 
finger -ring and wrist-bands; while Murat 
Halstead was wrapt in a brown study. But 
Mr. Dana, whose resolute nerve never shrank 
from the performance of any duty, however 
painful, at the expense of another, at once 
replied. 

" We considered — Mr. President ! that 
your mind, when you mentioned ' Old Gid,' 
might have been a trifle unhinged by recent 
t 'abinet troubles, and — " 

" Unhinged ! " 

" And concluded that — " 

" You wouldn't obey me, you rascally 
idiots. What do yon take me for? Un- 




BECOND SECRETARY Of THE INTERIOR, 
G. F. TRAIN. 

lunged — indeed ! Train shall be removed." 

"That, of course, Mr. President," 

"White hairs, you villains! symbolize 
experience and wisdom. Gid Welles is 
whiter-haired than I am. So you shall have 
him, whether you object or not." 

" I don't object," stoutly said Mr. Tweed. 
"But you must be aware — Mr. President! 
the people — " 

" What, sir 1 " 

" Might laugh at you ! " 

" Laugh at me, you vagabond ! At me ! 
Didn't they place me in my present lofty 
position ? Are not all my mistakes and 
blunders owing to you — you idiotic; scoun- 
drels? If you don't like Old Gid, you may — * 

"But— Mr. President! I do." 

The Financial Secretary had been cowed 
by their chiefs resumption of all his former 
Saxon vigor of speech, and the whole of the 
Cabinet, with the exception of Mr. Dana, 
coincided in feeling with him. 

The matter was therefore settled. 

No sooner had Secretary Welles assumed 
his position, than matters within the Cabinet 
began to work more smoothly. His thick- 



28 




THE PRESIDENTIAL DANCK OK TRIUMPH 
WITH (J. FRANCIS TRAIN 'g COAT TAIL. 

skullcsl tranquility of brain acted as a non- 
conductor to the vital electricity of the Head 
of tJio Nation. Besides, the. physicians of 
tho latter were no longer in attendance. 
After realizing the beneficial effects of their 
prescription, the President began to employ 
it, in larger and more frequent doses. These 
had restored his temper to more than its 
normal condition. 

But, Mr. George Francis Train -was not 
disposed to sit down as quietly, under the 
loss of his position as head of the Cabinet, 
as Whitelaw Reid had done. He began 
once more to lecture. His first lecture was 
singularly offensive. He styled this lecture 
—"The Loss op my Coat-Tail; ok, the 
Lunacy of Old Horace." 1 

Necessarily, he exposed himself to ecn- , 
siderablo censure for doing this. 

Such, however, is the unavoidable rancor 
of extreme partisanship, that he was awarded 
unqualified praise by the Republican jour- 
nals, as one of the noblest patriots. " He 
bad quitted a Cabinet n — so they said — " in ' 



which Ins love I'm lus oountrj would not 
permit him t<> remain." Indeed, a nrritei 
in the Boston Traveller dubbed him the 
•• American I rracchus." 

The New York Times reported this lee 
ture in full. Winn tin- Sage ofOhappaqua 
read it, he auai hematized George Frauds 
iii his most vigorous Saxon. Nevertheless, 
bears Billed his eyes as he did so, and he felt 
compelled to a reckless use of the presorip 
tion Dr. Oamochan had written fur him. 
For the time this re-invigorated him, and 
he brusquely demanded of his new Secretary 
of the Interior — 

"What, is to be done with the lying 

villain !" 

Old (lid shook his head gravely. 

"In time, .Mr. President, he will wear 
himself out.'' 

"Yes! You white-haired idiot!" shrilly 
ejaculated the Philosopher, "when I am 
worn out myself." 

"Certainly Mr. President! it may be so. n 

"Can't we try him for High Treason? 
Didn't Congress endeavor to impeach mo?" 
he then asked of the Attorney-General. 

As Old Gid again shook his head nega 
tively, Mr. Hoffman replied with his usual 
grave suavity — 

" In our country, Mr. President, every 
ono may talk as he pleases. And, you see, 
he is only talking.'' 

That night, the President took sevoral 
more doses of his inestimable prescriptiou 
than ever Dr. Carnochan might have con- 
sidered advisable. In consequence of this, 
he became at one moment strangely tender 
hearted, and at another madly irascible. 
Now he would level a volley of Saxon ex- 
pletives indifferently at any who were pres- 
ent, and then he wotdd embrace his Private 
Secretary with a burst of what, in a less 
elevated nature, might have seemed idioti' 1 
/aughter. 

Accustomed as she had formerly been to 
tho singularities of her Ulustrious husband's 
temper, Mrs. Greeley became positively 



24 




a 



SECOND SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR — 

rj id. \\ ■ . i LS. 

frightened. Never, iii her long years of 
connubial happiness, had she beheld The 
present Head of the Nation in such a condi- 
tion. 

Dr. Stone was immediately sent for. But, 
when he arrived, the President was buried 
in a blissful slumber, with his mouth wide 
open and a placid smile upon it. To Mrs. 
Greeley's pathetic appeal, the surgeon re- 
plied, after a careful examination of the 
patient, " that there was no immediate 
danger.'' Then, requesting her to retire, he 
promised to watch by the side of the couch 
upon which the body of his illustrious but 
unconscious patient lay stretched. 

No sooner was he left alone with the slum- 
bering President and his faithful Private 
Secretary, than the latter laid bis hand upon 
the arm of the physician. 

" I hope and trust, my dear Doctor!" he 
said, "you will not permit the question [am 
about to put to you to be repeated to others. 
Bis Excellency President Greeley has al- 
ways been a strictly temperate man. Mind, 

Doctor! I am only supposing what I sa; 

may not bis late political annoyances have 
induced him to— to " 

As Mr. Sinclair paused, scarcely knowing 
how to proceed, the Doctor trembled so 



visibly, that, had it not been for the Secre- 
tary's agitation, he must have seen it. What 
if it should ever come to the knowledge ot 
the Sage of Chappaqua that he had con- 
roved with Dr. Carnochan in the prescrip- 
tion that eminent man had written for him? 
He was, however, shrewd enough to quickly 
suppress all out ward evidence of his trepida- 
tion. 

"Certainly not— Mr. Sinclair!" he curtly 
enough answered. " Purely a caseof physical 
prostration from intense mental anxiety." 

■•Thank Heaven !" murmured the anxious 
questioner, as, with a fervent grasp of the 
physician's hand, he left him alone with the 
placid figure unconsciously stretched upon 

the COUCh beside him. 

Upon the succeeding morning, when the 
President recovered consciousness, after a 
few moments, during which his gray eyes 
were occupied in wandering about the apart- 
ment, they recognized the physician. 

" Why — what are you doing here. Doc- 
tor ' " he querulously inquired. 

" Mr. President ! I grieve to say you have 
been very ill. Yoiu' family sent for me." 

" The infernal idiots ! " fractiously ex- 
claimed the Philosopher, at once erecting 
himself upon the couch in a sitting position, 
" I haven't been ill — never felt better in. my 
life. My tongue is a little parched — that's 
all. Where is my medicine .'" 

" It was of that I was about to speak, 
Mr. President. I fear that you have not 
confined yourself to the exact number of 
doses that" — he was about to have said 
" ;r<"," but, after a brief pause, added — •• Dr. 
Carnochan ordered you to take daily." 

The Philosopher was just on the point of 
crying out "you lie, you villain!" when 
his glance followed the outstretched finger 
of the medical man, and rested upon three 
emptied bottles which were standing on a 
bureau at the farther side of the room. The 
labels indicated that liny had come from 
the chemist. Daring the slumber of his 



25 







GRATZ BBOWn's UNQUALIFIED [NDOKSEMEKT OF DH. CARNOCHAN'S PRESCRIPTION. 



patient, the medical man had examined 
them. As a conscientious historian, we may 
add that he had tasted the remaining por- 
tion, ami, indeed, had finished the contents 
of the last bottle. 

""Weill" whimpered oat the Sage of 
qua, •• what if I did ' It benefited 
me. 1 couldn't help it." 

••That may lie, Mr. President I Bui some 
medicines are a slow poison, when they are 
taken too freely." 

•• And this. Doctor" — 

•• May prove one, if you indulge in it more 
than necessary. 

•• Hut 1 did not." 

•• A-e you entirely certain of that, Mr. 
President .'" asked the physician. 

'•Why, of course I am." 

"Then," said the Doctor curtly, " there is 
nothing more to lie said about it. Hut re- 
member, nov *''"* yon h ive recovered your 



normal strength, my advice is, that hence 
forth you altogether abstain from it." 

ice of the Head of the Nation hail 
grown sensibly paler, as he listened to the 
words of his medical adviser. I If was evi- 
dently thinking. Nor were his thoughts, as 
translated by his broad and philosophic fea 
tares, inclined to run against tie' surgeon's 
directions. Indeed, this day and the next, he 
implicitly followed his advice. He felt, how- 
ever, 80 unlike his former self — his Saxon 
tongue was deprived of all its customary 
fluency, in conversation with his subordi- 
nates — that towards the close of the second 
day he .summoned Mr. Stuart. 

"Look here, Stuart !'" he said, -what is 
your opinion of the relative merits, as doc- 
tors, "f Stone and t'arnochan .'" 

" What do yon mean to ask, Mr. Presi- 
dent?" asked the head of the kitchen-cabi- 
net. 



26 



•• What l say— you fool ! " ejaculated the 
Sage of Chappaqua. « Why don't you an- 
swer me ! Which Ls the best doctor— Car- 
nochan or Stone ? " 

•• In ;* critical case, Mr. President ! J may, 
I think, say that I should unhesitatingly 
prefer J)r. Carnochan, although lie is a 
I democrat. 

•• A I democrat ! Eh '. " inquiringly ejacu- 
lated the Philosopher; "didn't Democrats 
bring me in as President I I didn't ask you, 
you idiot ! about his political opinions." 

" He is certainly— Mr. President! the most 
. anient surgeon of the two." 

-So I thought. 1 shall follow his advice 
implicitly." 
•'You are certainly right." 
" Of course I am. Go and order me, im- 
mediately, six bottles of the prescription 
given me when he was here." 

The kitchen factotum of the President at 
once obeyed the imperative order of his 
master. 
He vanished from the apartment. 
On the same evening the Sage of Chap- 
paqua had made a special appointment with 
the Vice-President to confer with him on a 
matter which he considered of vital import- 
ance to the morals of Washington, as they 
were affected by the largo body of clerks 
male and female, who were at this time em- 
ployed in the public offices in Washington. 
Economy, as he had always contended, was 
a largely necessary element in all good gov- 
ernments. The salaries of these officials 
were at least twenty-five per cent, higher 
than was required, when they were regarded 
relatively with his own salary and those of 
the other members of the Administration. 
We ha v.i understood that Mr. Brown 
scarcely agreed with him. 

Indeed, he was about to skite his objec- 
tions, when the Philosopher's personal do- 
mestic brought into the apartment, the 
medicine which had been been made up 
promptly by the chemist on receiving Hie 
order from Mr. Stuart. It would tx un- 



necessary to Bay that for the moment the 
discussion was dropped. 

The evening was close and sultry, and 
the Sage of Chappaqua bade the man bring 
him in sonic iced water. While he was gone, 
the President took up one of the bottles 
and stripped it of its paper covering. 

'• Your medicine. I see," said Mr. Brown. 

" Yes." 

"Will you allow me to extract the cork 
for you." 

At the same time his Vice withdrew a 
delicate-looking cork-screw from his vest 
pocket. By no means unfrequently am 
such instruments to be found in the per- 
sonal possession of our Western magnates. 
as they used to be in that of our Southern 
ones. Even in the East they arc occasionally 
carried. The President looked grave. Al- 
though unacquainted personally with the 
use of such au instrument, he was too 
sagacious not to understand the purpose 
for which it was carried in the pocket of his 
subordinate. Hje was, however, at the 
moment too anxious for a glass of the heal- 
ing fluid, to comment upon the presence of 
the corkscrew on the person of that gentle- 
man. 

As Mr. Brown withdrew the cork from the 
bottle, he seemed to recognize the delicate 
aroma which reached him. As he did so, 
he lifted the flask to his nose, smelt it, ami 
smiled slightly. 

" Who was it gave you this prescription. 
Mr. President?" 

"Dr. Carnochan." 

"Undoubtedly, a very able man ?"' 

" I am gratified to hear you say that he 
is," replied the Sage. 

" Will you allow me to taste it *" 

" Of course I will. Yon won't find it at 
all unpleasant." 

"I should think not," exclaimed the Vice 
energetically. Then, after he had nioits 
than half tilled a tumbler, he raised it to 
his lips, saying. " it has been prescribed for 



■27 



mo, and l consider it au admirable medicine. 

I do not invariably take it, but, really, rather 

liko it when I do." 
" Ami it does you no harm T" 
"Not a bit," .said Gratz Brown, smack 

in;; his lips. 

"Ton are sure of thatf" demanded the 
President. 
" I should rather think l was," responded 

the Vice, with a hearty laugh. 

"You don't know, Mr. Brown, how 
thoroughly you have eased my mind by 
giving me your candid opinion." 

The domestic had now brought in the leed 
water ami retired. The Sage of ( lhappaqua 

took the allowance prescribed for him, and, 
as ho felt the invigorating fluid resuscitating 
his old energy, burst out in the vigorous 
Saxon which has become so well known in 
modern oratory — 

'• Would you believe, sir, that the infernal 
idiot, Dr. Stone, told me it was a slow poison, 
and advised me altogether to abstain from 
toking it after my recovery." 

"Did her 

"Don't I tell you, he did?" 

"Certainly, sir." 

""What could have been his reason?" 

"Jealousy of Dr. ('amoeban," tersely ob- 
served the Vice-President, adding, "with 
your permission, Mr. President, I will try 
some more." 

lie did so. 

So did the Philosopher. 

It is to be regretted by those who had, 
until this time, regarded the Sago of Chap- 
paqua in almost a superhuman light, that 
ho permitted his subordinate to continue 
his attention to the prescription of Dr. 
Carnochan, and that he, also, himself fol- 
lowed his example. In fact, tho result of 
Gratz Brown's opinion was such that when 
that gentleman rose — it must be owned, 
somewhat unsteadily — to quit the presence 
of his superior, the last was chanting in a 
tolerably loud and Bacchanalian, although 



cracked voice, totally unfit for Operatic 

exorcise — 

" t'urry the BBWI to llirnm." 

To tell the truth, ho had been entirely 
relieved of the fear his Doctor had Instilled 
into him, by the pernicious opinion and 
action of his Vice. 

But, although it wassubsequentiy asserted 

by a portion of tho writers of the press, 

amongst whom ex-Secretary Beid made 

himself prominent, that Dr. I 'amoeban had 

been the agent of ('■ rat/. Brows tn giving the 
Ties .lent this now too celebrated prescrip- 
tion, and that this gentleman had wished, by 
the employment of alcoholic stimulants, to 

impair tho vigorous brain of his principal, 
with tho intention of soceeeding him, before 
the expiration of his term, in tho occupancy 
of the White House, such an opinion is 
totally unworthy of belief. Tho surgeon 
stands on too high a pinnacle in his profes- 
sion, for any candid mind to suppose this. 

At tho same time, it must bo admitted 
that tho Vice-President was too habituated 
to the use of spirituous liquor, even to dream 
of tho possibility, by its moans, of over- 
throwing so grandly a philosophic and 
political mind as that of the veteran farmer 
and journalist, the history of whose presi- 
dency wo have, with such thorough humility, 
attempted to impart to the reader. 

Neither can wo, as an impartial tran- 
scriber of historical facts, in the slightest 
way becoino accessory to the promulgation 
of so scandalous a charge. 

Did we do so, wo should be perverting 
fact for tho use of party, and simply in- 
dorsing tho unwarrantable attacks of a 
portion of tho partizan press, against two 
men who stand so high, relatively, in their 
widely various callings of politics and sur- 
gery.. 

The space left at our command, however, 
will now compel! us to draw rapidly to a 
conclusion. 

Neither, while we completely exonerate 



28 



Mr. Grata Brown and the eminent stur- 
geon, Dr. Carnochan, from the aspersion 
conveyed in this charge, are we unable to 
contradict the following fact, which is well 

known. 

On lea\ bag the White House this evening, 
it.. Nice President found himself, about half 

past. ten o'clock, in the r as of Downing, 

the celebrated negro caterer. 

He had entered them with the purpose of 
procuring a dozen of broiled oysters. 

There he met with a little political hack- 
writer, who had formerly been the, corre- 
spondent of a leading journal in his own 
State. Their acquaintance was slight 
enough. But the Vice-President had emp- 
tied four of the six bottles of Dr. Carno- 
ehan's prescription for his chief: He now 
fancied a bottle of Champagne would settle 
them. Under its influence he became 
leaky, and eontided to this man the mea- 
sure upon which the Sage of Chappaqua had 
a few hours previously been asking his 
advice. 

Such an unwise step, upon his part, was 
unpardonable. 

He onght, after such an important inter- 
view with his principal, to have kept the 
matter upon which he had been consult- 
ed by him, buried within his own bosom. 
What right has a statesman, were he a 
hundred times a Vice-President, to impart 
to any journalist, whether he be a penny-a- 
liner or an editor, those measures which are 
as yet in embryo — measures which are merel y 
discussed, and which may never be sub- 
mitted to Congress, and, even if so submit- 
ted, may, in all possibility never be indorsed 
by that august legislative body as actual 
...»s. 

All the pen of the historian can say, is 
that the actual consequence of Mr. Gratz 
Brown's childishly indiscreet babbling was, 
on the same night his intelligence was tele- 
graphed broadcast from one end of the 
Union to the other. 



The result of this indis< retion of the Vice- 
President was truly lamentable, and cannot 
but leave an eternal stain upon his name. 

When this proposed — remember! it was 
only proposed — measure of the Head of the 
Government appeared in print, it raised a 
howl of virtuous indignation everywhere. 
Men who had to work night and day, upon 
the daily press, .at fifteen or twenty dollars 
a week, were stirred up to wrath at the idea 
of cutting down better salaries than their 
own, paid for infinitely lighter work. One 
paper stigmatized it as a "veritable in- 
famy.'' Another anathematized it as a 
"MALIGNANTLY PICAYUNE ECONOMY." A 

third branded it, as a " scandalous OUT- 
RAGE ATTEMPTED BY THE HEAD OF THE 
GOVERNMENT. 

Nor, indeed, annoying as this was, w;is it 
all. 

Two days after, a mob of women and 
children — the wives, sisters, sons, and 
daughters of the male clerks of all the de- 
partments, with the female clerks also — as- 
sembled in the gardens of the White House. 

They insisted upon seeing the President. 

It was totally in vain that he was denied 
to them. 

A male mob can generally be dealt with. 
It can be chidden by resolution, or cleared 
out by the police. Should these chance to 
tail, the military can be called in. A vol- 
ley fired over the heads of the prominent 
leaders, or the glitter of fixed bayonets 
under their noses, would soon settle the 
question. But with a female mob — the one- 
half of them from twenty to twenty-five 
years of age — it is a widely different case. 
How could the most stoical or hard-hearted 
of our philosophers of the present day send 
some two or three or four hundred, or pos- 
sibly a thousand young brunettes or blondes, 
with Grecian bends and chignoms, to the 
station-house '( How could he threaten 
youthful beauty with cold lead or shining 
steeH It being granted that he dared not 
attempt one oi these modes of getting rid 



29 




'JIM 

CLOSE OP THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTOKY. 



<>i them, how miis li<> to refuse them an 
audience ? 

Indeed, it was wholly out of the question 
that the tender-hearted 8age of Chappaqua 
should deny them this privilege. 

Nor, indeed, had lie, with his wonted 
courage, set down Ids foot upon this ques- 
tion, would lie have been able to have kept 
it tirmly on the ground? 

Thrusting aside the attendants, paying no 
attention to the entreaties of the Private 
Secretary, hurling their mocking defiance at 

the chief of the kitchen cabinet, who at last 
tied before them, the petticoafed mob swarm- 
ed up the steps of the White Bouse,' and 
thronged into the building. 

They filled the halls, the reception and 
drawing rooms, and the library. Nay! As 



many ot them as could do so — we allude to 
the numbers that were Capable of attaining 
admittance in its confined Space — thronged 
into the private room of the President. 
There they found the present Father of his 
Country literally aghast He sank into his 
seat as that crowd of matronly and maiden 
beauty closed in around him. 

" What do you come for, here, my Chil- 
dren .'" he cried out. in a whiningly broken 
treble 

"Justice — Mi. President ! " 

•• That's what we want." 

•• We won't be starved out, while you are 
here rolling in luxury." 

" We want what our husbands work for." 

•• And enough to pay for our vhiqnons." 

■• Cive us our rights." 



30 



" Dou't cut down uiir salaries." 
" We won't stand it" 
" YourV a pretty Head of the Nation." 
" We'd better have had Vic Woodhull ! » 
" We shall all have to go on the streets." 
'• Or sell our hair." 
••Or make shirts." 

Hut, it would be absolutely impossible to 
chronicle all the tumultuons cries which wire 
thrust at him by feinalo voices. Here, one 
was colored with tears and lamentations— 
the next was edged by anger; this one was 
a wail — that one rang out a reproach. 

The Philosopher, tor the moment, felt his 
philosophy vanish before thisfeminine whirl- 
wind of vituperation and entreaty. 

To add to his trouble, as though, itseemed 
to him, it had not been sufficient, Mrs. 
Greeley appeared upon the scene. To her 
demand as to the meaning of such an un- 
wonted assemblage, he was able to answer 
nothing,, at the first moment. But, then, re- 
covering himself, he burst out in a torrent of 
Saxon eloquence. Indeed, so vigorously was 
it conceived, that, on hearing its rushing 
fluency, all the blondes and brunettes pres- 
ent, including even Mrs. Greeley herself, 
were thunderstruck. 
For the moment, they were silenced. 
Nay ! They cowered, as if spell-bound, 
under that wrathful and terrific outpouring 
of Saxon malediction. 

Then, thrusting their fingers in their ears, 
they vanished from the chamber, and rushed 
from the White House, drawing after them 
in then- mad panic, from hall, reception, and 
dining room and library, the outer mass of 
the feminine mob, appalled by the rolling 
bellow and surging shriek of the Philoso- 
pher's vituperation. 
The President was left alone. 
Striding from corner to corner of the room, 
raving as lie had done when George Francis 
Train had stung him into a lesser degree of 
wrath, lie literally foamed at the mouth. 
His formerly powerful mind was, for the 



; moment, completely unhinged. Whose mind 
would not have l>een thrown off its bal- 
ance by such a result from the unwarrant- 
able betrayal of his confidence, by a subordi- 
nate in whom he had supposed he might 
repose an implicit trust f 
At the same time, it must be owned that 

j his furious frenzy may possibly have been 

; heightened by his recently too liberal use of 

; Dr. Carnochan's prescription. 

Yet, even from the consequences of modi- 

! cine and wrath, he might doubtless have 
recovered* 

Two hours had passed, and he had re- 
gained something of his former saint-like 
placidity of demeanor, although his family, 
alarmed by what Mrs. Greeley had this 
day st*n, had already determined upon a 
second time summoning Dr. Carnochan 
from New York, when the papers from that 
city, which he insisted on reading for him- 
self every day, were placed before him. 

Knowing the press of the metropolis as 
thoroughly as he did, there is little to be 
wondered at, in his refusing to allow them 
to pass first through the hands of his Private 
Secretary. As it turned out, it woidd have 
been infinitely better for him, had he done so. 

First, he opened the Tribune. It was 
natural that ho should do so. With that 
sheet he had grown into greatness. P>ut for 
it, he might never have fought his way into 
his now lofty and grandly-merited position. 
As he looked at the. paper, a gloomy scowl 
overspread his countenance. 

« That villain— Whitelaw ! » he muttered, 
in a low whine, as he thrust it from him. 
"Why should ho give the fellow — Grant — a 
column and a half." 

Then he took up and Unfolded the New York 
JTeraUl. One — two — three — four — five — six 
— yes, seven columns of leaded type ! These 
wereheadedinthelargest letters — "Grant." 
This was followed by — " TnE Greatest 
General of TnE Republic — Washing, 
tux and Grant — Ovn two Greatest 



::i 



Presidents— Grant remains Three 
Days in the Metropolis— A Grand Re- 
ception nv HIM AT nil: I'll in A.7ENUB 

Hotel to-morrow— Fire-works and an 

Ii.i.CAUNATIoN IN M UMSON Bcjl IRE, 

w ma Ft i.i. Band of Sixty." The con 
eluding words were— "Three times rHREE 
Cheers, ind a Tioer, poh hik Man who 
8A ; ,.,, i>he Union lnd has always bees 

TRUE TO in:i! !" 

it.- gazed at the beading for a moment, 
and, while doing so, the paper fell from Ins 
nerveless hand upon tin' carpet. 

lie could read no more. 

The fire-works, the illumination, the re- 
ception, and tin' hand, were merely mutters 

of private subscription. 
Aye I 

And, what of that J 

Such were the rewards accorded by private 
gratitude to a national hen) other than 
himself. A great modern writer had said — 
" The pou is mightier than tha sword." 

But he himself had not found it so. Or, 
at any rate, it was certainly not greater in 
America than the bullet and the bayonet 
now jvere. 



Granl was named with Washington. 
Thus was he ranked by the leading Joni 

nal in America — Imply, in the world. 

What was the worth <>l having been a 

journalist, a man of peace, a Fourieite, a 
vegetarian, a aegro-wcrshipperarUnitarian, 
.1 Republican, and everything else in the 

American world, including, lasl of all, a 

Democratic President, to be lefl out in the 

cold like thisl 

Slill Bitting there, his palsied hands -rasp 

tog ai nothing— hie gray eyes gazing specu- 

latively into vacancy— he was baftbling of 

gieen fields and of Ghappaqna» 



Little more may he said The < urt.iin 
must he drawn as we reach the close ol' this 
sad and mournful history. 

We draw the curtain at tin- close of this 
lamentable story. Two years ami four 
months of the Presidency have sufficed t<> 
destroy Horace Greeley's grandly simple 

and actively philosophic mind. What i- 
now t<> come, we do not know. President 
Grata Brown with an empty treasury, and 
possibly, after uiui— the Deluge. 



S2 



i£i@ - gg 



I 




A FADING FLOWER. (HorKlNS.) 

♦'Ever thus since childhood's hottb, 
I've sken my fondest iiofes decay; 
i never i.oved a trek ok flower 
But 'twas tub first to fade away.' 












'•-•■—. ■•;.. ■■■■ /m***^ ^C- ■ 









" 



^^^^^. 






- y. V- L ' 









Mig!^'^» 



1 V*W'VvV^v\ 






&i& 












I.'" 



yw./i j * - ; oc yy v^ 






^ . -:, 



lUl^'J^a^, «£& ■ . v ^ w • * » ' . 






XV^V/rfjv 






vW** 






: : 



.y^v^w^^ 









V W* 



J - * 



-\^V"^-^^"* J ^ 



WV 






l$fiyJ#f!; 






- •; v y , j-c:orc 






'UWu^Li, . /U*uw ^ v , « 




vJy/ w W W\, 






3 - : i. 



w v^ ,VV 



• rJW 



'V^ 






>^; v i 















iV>"\V Vn» 



KiMmS, 



II 



*$?!« 



M 



>mm 









$ 



$ftp;x#:w 



Illl 



N«i 



I 



liSiiP 



tftf$ 






!ii»f 



mil 



■i'vV"! Wi'ittvi 



inmtmm 












w. 



K'<X'}'im'M 






mmm 



MU.it'i 



8PB 

'."■'nVviijj 



'.«i '/>:•,*!'; v:w J 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 



013 789 114 1 # 



iiiiii 



,•/,'. >t. ;."!'. \~> 



